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Tag Archives: media
NZ Newspaper Readership Numbers
More Red Sea – this time the changes in circulation numbers for Newspapers. The charts show the difference in readership between 2007/8 and 2008/9. Once again these are supplied by Roy Morgan. I’ve put the Sundays, which is once-weekly and … Continue reading
Posted in NZ Business
Tagged APN, Dominion Post, fairfax, media, NZ Herald, Readership, Roy Morgan
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NZ Magazine Readership numbers
The Roy Morgan newspaper and magazine readership numbers are out. I created some charts to read the Magazine numbers better – so here they are. They show the differences between 2007/8 and 2008/9 readership numbers. Click on the images for … Continue reading
Posted in fairfax
Tagged 2008/9, APN, Magazine circulation, media, new zealand, Roy Morgan
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News from afar – patience required
After the comments in the last post I decided to find some numbers behind the Mozambique experience of Stuff and NZHerald. Happily the Stuff website eventually came back up. However the experience is less than stellar. My first test shows … Continue reading
The 31 reasons that inflight wifi is not making money
From the WSJ we hear that sales for inflight wifi have been disappointing. It seems that when you give it away the usage is pretty high, but things change when there is a price: “.. in tests and now in … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Internet Business
Tagged Broadband, gogo, gogoinflight, inflight wifi, media, travel
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My lousy business model
Bryan Spondre keeps calling me out as a Grumpy Blogger – and it seems I am even up for an award. It’s true, and what’s worse is that I tend to rail on the businesses that I work with – … Continue reading
It’s the internet – so link to each other
Well done to Russell Brown over at Public Address (I said they write well) for breaking the story on the Kids Can Stand Tall debacle. It’s a good scoop after some digging into the history of the Telethon beneficiary. I … Continue reading
Posted in media
Tagged blogging, credit, linking, media, online media, public address, scoop
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Phishing on Twitter
I received this DM from Wellington’s @andrewfantastic this morning: Given the state of affairs with the NBR and so forth, I clicked on the link – hoping to see a lovely rant. T’was not to be – instead Safari gave … Continue reading
NBR increases sales
It appears as though I made it to the front page of the NBR today. It was in an article written to defend the seemingly arbitrary and certainly poorly implemented decision last week to charge outrageous fees for access to … Continue reading
Analysis or Opinion, Faith or Facts?
I had a good email exchange yesterday with a friend. It started after the Tuesday post on improvement – and my comment about switching from MYOB to Xero. My friend is a big MYOB fan, and challenged the assertion that … Continue reading
NBR continues their descent into madness
Here’s NBR homepage, above the fold, this morning. I’ve helpfully crossed out in red the articles that are subscriber only, and in black the one article that has a bad link (which I suspect would be subscriber only anyway). Note … Continue reading
Weatherston Guilty of murder – before jury returns
Complete with quotes from the family – here is, via Google, premature article from The Press on Weatherston’s guilty murder verdict. (Hat Tip to @rachel_a) Accidents do happen in the editorial room (I’ve done it myself) and as these things … Continue reading
Today’s news is fluffy
The front pages of both Stuff and NZHerald today are a sad indictment of both media in NZ and of what readers want to read. Let’s look at them article by article – and to do so I’ve helpfully colour … Continue reading
